. The Southern States. GABRIELS TRUMPET. By Hester Dorsey Richardson. The house was one of the hip-roofedfarm houses pecuhar to the early settle-ments of Maryland. The roof, with windows, slanted nearly halfwaydown the walls in conformity with theprimitive idea of architectural clapboards were whitewashed, theshutters painted green, and the roof, byfar the most conspicuous part of thehouse, had been stained by time a dullweather-beaten grey. Back of the dwelling there was anold-fashioned garden in which lilacs,holly-hocks and big red peonies grewside by side with potatoes
. The Southern States. GABRIELS TRUMPET. By Hester Dorsey Richardson. The house was one of the hip-roofedfarm houses pecuhar to the early settle-ments of Maryland. The roof, with windows, slanted nearly halfwaydown the walls in conformity with theprimitive idea of architectural clapboards were whitewashed, theshutters painted green, and the roof, byfar the most conspicuous part of thehouse, had been stained by time a dullweather-beaten grey. Back of the dwelling there was anold-fashioned garden in which lilacs,holly-hocks and big red peonies grewside by side with potatoes, cabbages andclimbing beans. Box bushes, planteddecades before, bordered the path to thecreek which flowed by the garden. Thetall lilac bushes grew close to the walkon each side, so that their bloom-ladenbranches met in an arch overhead. The front yard was given up to poul-try. Beyond the low paling fence abeautiful stretch of green was the prome-nade of the flock of geese whose inces-sant cackle alone disturbed the s
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